Comments on: ABC Nightlife: Apps down the farm http://paulwallbank.com/2012/10/18/abc-nightlife-apps-down-the-farm/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=abc-nightlife-apps-down-the-farm Society and business in the 21st Century Sat, 20 Oct 2012 03:40:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.3 By: Paul Wallbank http://paulwallbank.com/2012/10/18/abc-nightlife-apps-down-the-farm/comment-page-1/#comment-28994 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:03:51 +0000 http://paulwallbank.com/?p=5530#comment-28994 In reply to Peter Harrison.

Hi Peter, I have no idea where you get the idea that the “technorati” are claiming agriculture is full of “straw chewing hillbillies”.

Have a listen to the show and you’ll hear we discuss robotics, GPS, drones and PLC controllers. Just for the record I’ve been involved in businesses using RFID management tags and remote farm management.

One of the things you need to be careful of is falling into the same trap of making assumptions based on stereotypes.

Thanks for the comment.

]]> By: Peter Harrison http://paulwallbank.com/2012/10/18/abc-nightlife-apps-down-the-farm/comment-page-1/#comment-28993 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:51:10 +0000 http://paulwallbank.com/?p=5530#comment-28993 It is about time the technorati realised that agriculture is one of the largest users of sophisticated technology – sure a few apps here and there but then you get into precision agriculture – GPS, robotic control,RFID animal tags for improved management, use of drones [ already being used in some places as part of precision agriculture to adjust spraying and fertilisers], plus heaps of plc controllers in equipment, grain drying etc etc. Need to dismiss old ideas of straw chewing hillbillies.

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